Introducing my Fuel Coupe-styled Tudor

Now the fun part begins. Looks great, Gary! This one will NEED to be seen in person. Where/when will it make the big debut?

 

WOW!!!

 

NOS frame webbing.


In return for pizza, my son and five of his friends hoisted the body onto the ch***is.

 

In the old days that body webbing was brake lining.

 

Man that’s exciting, so close!

 

So those guys are ''body'' builders. Good to have help.

 

Glad to see these young fellows helping out and doing something cool, like putting a bad *** hot rod together. We need more pictures of the body on Gary.

 

Sorry fellas. It's not very photogenic right now.
The front axle is still at the chrome shop, so the front end rolls around on dollys & cribbing.

 

Holy-Cow Brother, so excited for you, it's been a long 18 year journey.

 

You rounding the corner heading to the home stretch gives me more hope than you could know!!!

She's bright!

 

oh man! I didn't realize I was behind on this thread!

kicking ****, getting to all the good stuff!

can't wait to see it all once the axle comes back!

 

CHROME!

I'd already ground and sanded the front axle and rear bumper to #400 to reduce chrome shop labor costs.


Wayne's Auto Parts in Fredericksburg, VA, finished sanding, then triple (copper, nickel, chrome) plated them both.

Wayne’s Auto Parts | Wayne’s Auto Parts (waynesautoparts.com)

Excellent quality and very reasonable price. I'd definitely trust them with future work.

The twelve-week turnaround (Wayne had predicted 8-10) was a minor inconvenience but I pressed ahead with other tasks while waiting.

BTW, that's a '33-36 Ford axle dropped by @jackandeuces

 

That is nice work, Gary. Very nice. Triple plating these days is a real bonus. I know that some platers are skipping the copper stage because of the expense of the copper. You should be well pleased with that.

 

Very nice dropped axle, always like to see consistent spacing on the dropped area, chrome looks great. Bob

 

Slick!

 

Those chrome pieces are the cat's pajamas !

 

That axle is art.

-Abone.

 

Oooh chrome !! Looks fantastic, they did a great job !
So it should be a roller soon

 

I finished the fuel tank & floor while waiting on the chrome axle.

I cut & glued thin rubber pads (leftover bits of a '55 Chevy anti-squeak kit) to the tank's mounting tabs to reduce noise.




Floorboard tops & bottoms are satin black epoxy.


I ground down portions of the edges and s***ch-welded them to the sub- and cross-rails.


Then repainted the weld beads and sealed remaining seams with black silicone.


It took almost one full 10.1 oz tube.


BTW, welding the floor *after* the body was painted was a h***le.

But it was a conscious decision, because the body needed to be as light as possible when rolling it to my backyard "spraybooth". Not an excuse, just an explanation.

Now to the front-end!

 

Far out

 

Go Gary go !! Heading for the finish line !! Look’s good

 

Excellent!! Excited for you as you head for the finish line. Hope to see it in person....Don.

 

What an awesome build, and an excellent color choice!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks for the compliments, fellas.


Do other cars' bolt holes seem to move ever so slightly during the time between dis***embly and re***embly?

 

It’s got ‘the stance’ !!

 

Love that color.

 

Looks great. Only question is the drag link looks like it is lying on hairpin.

 

Yeah- there's a 3/8" gap between them.

A bunch of tasks still need to be done; alignment, cotter pins, yada yada yada. I might move the tie rod & drag link to on top of the spindles.

 

Wowza!

I was just talking about “the old ford dance” last week. I had a part that I had numbers by each hole. It fit together perfect but you had to put the bolts in in a specific order lol.

take it off, look at it, go to put it back on and none of the holes match lol tale as old as time.

 

Wow!